Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule Goes into the Shop for Repairs

Abstract

More than 10 years ago, Oregon approved a new and sweeping process for considering transportation planning for local agencies and land use development. This process, coined the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR), was adopted into administrative rules of the state and provided local agencies with a means of considering short-range land use actions, long-range transportation plans, and changes to zoning that have been implemented by local agencies throughout the state. Recently TPR has been challenged over its process for addressing the relationship between the adequacy of transportation facilities and rezoning of land uses. The Jaqua case, taken to the State Court of Appeals, raised key issues as to the level of evaluation and planning process necessary in determining the adequacy of transportation facilities: a property owner challenged a city's transportation analysis in support of a land use rezoning action and claimed that analysis was not adequate because it did not look incrementally over time (simil...